EconTech

My server has had 2 memory slots die, my laptops have a dying hard drive, broken usb, broken audio, failing graphics card, and damaged space bar split between them. This has made turning on my computer difficult, not to mention using it. Hopefully things will be back to a more normal status sooner rather than [...]

Edit: I will continue to update this post as I find issues
I am having all kinds of problems.

I just tried updating the very popular Python uniq(sequence) post, only to find out that the Wordpress editor is stripping whitespace from the preformatted text. GENIUS GUYS. Really. Great way to COMPLETELY KILL THE POINT OF PREFORMATTED TEXT.
Not [...]

First of all, sorry for the downtime, if you were trying to get to the site. Moved the server, didn’t go as well as expected. Hopefully now it will be better. There is a good chance of another period of downtime within the week, depending on how my apartment mates react to the cable running [...]

Apologies for the lack of posting (for the 2.2 peole who care, and the 1 person who noticed). I woke up to my laptop’s hard drive going click-click. It is still ‘functional’ and I have all the important data off of it. However, after having used the same Debian install for almost 8 years, I [...]

I’ve edited some of the CSS for my theme and a couple of other things to improve the layout and get rid of some of the fluffy images from the theme I was using. If you have any complaints, suggestions, or other commentary on improving the visual appeal of the site (readability or otherwise) this [...]

The CBO has a blog. This is great. Adding to the blogroll. That is all.

I often link to Wikipedia. No, it is not authoritative. Encyclopedias have not for a long time, probably at least the past 75 years, been an authoritative reference on the state of academic knowledge. They have instead transformed into a general reference, a starting point for further reference and research. There was a time, of [...]

Let me know what you think. I was looking for a 2 column layout that had some margins, but had a wider main content column. The other one was annoyingly narrow for any kind of moderately lengthy content.  I’m not sure, but I think the red here might be a bit harsh on the eyes. [...]

Via Andrew Gelman, a new political science blog has popped up. It has a number of good posts up for today, which is why it is getting added without waiting longer to see where it goes.
First, a good, simple chart of where your liberal New Yorker falls relative, politically, to the median American, relative to [...]

Sorry, I had a minor DNS issue due to a bug in a piece of my router that was telling the upstream dns server to not send wildcard dns requests (*.econtech.selfip.org) on to me to deal with after an IP change. If you are using Google Reader (and possibly similar services) to read this, you [...]

Ok, looks like everything is up and running. The WordPress Import script leaves something to be desired (say, configurability?), so I had to reimport all the posts after noticing that it didn’t preserve the links, at all. Alas, that problem has been solved. Maybe I’ll try to organize the crap I did to make an [...]

I am moving away from this script to a proper content management system so that I can more easily keep up with my references and such. Hence, this feed will no longer be updated, and will soon be moved to http://blog.econtech.selfip.org/feed/atom/ . I am working on a way of transferring all of my content here [...]